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Carlow University
Carlow University Names Coordinator for Mercy Center for Service Pittsburgh, Pa. – Carlow University has named the Rev. Jermaine McKinley, DMin, as the coordinator for the Mercy Center for Service. “The opening of the Mercy Center for Service marks the beginning or a new phase in the life of the University as we strive to grow in our response to our Mercy heritage – particularly the tradition of service inherent in any Mercy institution,” said Sister Sheila Carney, RSM, special assistant to the President for Mercy Heritage and Service. “Dr. McKinley brings to her position as coordinator a wealth of experience and insight that will bring the Center and all that it means to its fullest potential. We heartily welcome her to the Carlow family.” McKinley comes to Carlow from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary where she served for the past 10 years as assistant director of the Metro-Urban Institute. She earned her bachelor’s degree and a master of business administration from California Coast University. She earned a master’s degree in sacred divinity, as well as sacred theology, before gaining her doctorate in ministry from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. An ordained Presbyterian minister, McKinley will serve as the vice moderator of Pittsburgh Presbytery in 2010. She currently is a tent-making pastor serving as moderator of the session at Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Homewood. She previously served in parish ministry at Sheraden Community Presbyterian and Valley View Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. She has also served as an adjunct instructor at Community College of Allegheny County. “My role will be to benchmark all current community service endeavors, assess their effectiveness, and seek to coordinate our overall efforts,” said McKinley. “I also will be the coordinator for the University’s Alternative Spring Break and Mercy Service Day activities.” For this year’s Alternative Spring Break, Carlow University will send 21 students, faculty, and/or staff members to Laredo, Texas, during the week of March 7 to build houses for the Laredo chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Mercy Service Day provides an annual opportunity for first year students to set aside the class work and pick up a hammer or broom to offer service to nonprofit agencies throughout Allegheny County. The day is observed each September during Mercy Founders Week. The Mercy Center for Service has been established through a three-year grant of McAuley Ministries, the funding arm of Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, to coordinate communication and collaboration between organizations at Carlow dedicated to service. This will be accomplished through a three-pronged strategy that seeks to promote student service, instills service-learning as part of the curriculum, and creates an organization infrastructure to manage the process and provide program support.
Carlow University's Alternative Spring Break Takes Place in Laredo, TX Pittsburgh, Pa. – Many college students view Spring Break as a time to hit the beach, but a group of 21 Carlow University students, faculty, and staff members, will use their break to help build houses for Habitat for Humanity in Laredo, Texas. Carlow’s Alternative Spring Break (ASB) will take place during the week of March 7 through March 13, 2010. The Carlow contingent will participate with groups from four other universities – 90 students in all – as part of the Laredo Habitat for Humanity Collegiate Challenge. “The goal is to build simple, decent, affordable houses for the working poor of Laredo, Texas,” said Rev. Jermaine McKinley, coordinator of the Mercy Center for Service at Carlow. “All participants will gain a greater understanding and appreciation for the issues associated with building affordable housing and exposure to a cultural heritage that may be different from their own. And, although we will not be crossing or visiting the U.S.- Mexico border, participants will have opportunities to interact with those familiar with border issues to learn from their experience and perspective.” This will be the 16th Alternative Spring Break in which Carlow University has participated. The previous two trips were to the ninth ward in New Orleans to help rebuild the community following the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. In years past, Carlow’s ASB students have also gone to Arizona, Kentucky, Virginia, St. Thomas and Jamaica – to name just a few – and have done everything from build houses, to volunteer in the local schools, to help abandoned disabled children within a compound’s barbed-wire walls.
Carlow University Winter Commencement Ceremony Set for January 16, 2010 Pittsburgh, Pa. – Carlow University will hold its Winter Commencement Ceremony at 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2010 in the Rosemary Heyl Theatre in Antonian Hall on the Carlow campus. During the ceremony, 145 students will receive bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctoral degrees. The commencement speaker will be the Honorable Stephanie Domitrovich, judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Pennsylvania (Erie County) and a Carlow alumna. Prior to being elected to the bench in 1989, Judge Domitrovich served as assistant Erie County solicitor and engaged in private practice. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Carlow University in 1976, where she graduated summa cum laude, and her JD from Duquesne University School of Law in 1979. She has also earned two master’s degrees and a doctorate in judicial studies from the University of Nevada, Reno – where she became the first graduate to earn a PhD in judicial studies. The day will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a Baccalaureate Mass in the Mother of Mercy Chapel in the Sisters of Mercy Convent adjacent to the Carlow campus. Reverend Kris D. Stubna, Secretary for Education for the Diocese of Pittsburgh will be the celebrant for the Mass. Carlow students, faculty, and staff will serve as liturgical ministers.
Carlow University Appoints Margaret McLaughlin, PhD, Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs Pittsburgh, PA—Following a national search, Carlow University has named Margaret McLaughlin, PhD, as Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs. Dr. McLaughlin comes to Carlow from the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis Minnesota, where she has served as Dean of Health Professions and as a Professor of Biology. In that role, she has held academic responsibility for the College’s School of Health, which encompasses 21 programs, 2,000 students, and 200 faculty members and whose degree offerings range from certificate programs through a clinical doctorate in physical therapy and a doctorate of nursing practice. “We are honored that Dr. McLaughlin has chosen to return to Pittsburgh and to join us as Carlow University's Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs in July,” said Dr. Mary Hines, Carlow University’s president. “She has a record of leading program development, launching new graduate and undergraduate programs, and of generating significant growth in large annual grants. She has a passion for teaching and working with learners at all stages of their education, and for collaborating with faculty to provide quality education in all programs. We look forward to working with her to advance the University's mission and strategic plan through the highest level of academic leadership.” Before joining the College of St. Catherine in 1999, Dr. McLaughlin was a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Associate Director of the Magee-Womens Research Institute, also affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. She developed and then served as the Director of the National Center for Excellence in Women’s Health at Magee-Womens Hospital. Prior to becoming an academic dean, her scholarly work centered on female cardiovascular biology, preeclampsia, and women’s health issues. Louise Malakoff, Chair of Carlow University’s Board of Trustees, said, “Dr. McLaughlin comes to Carlow with an understanding of, and commitment to, the University’s mission and its vision of being recognized as the outstanding women-centered Catholic University. We welcome her energetic and innovative leadership as Carlow implements its new strategic planning goals for academic excellence.” Dr. McLaughlin focused her graduate studies on reproductive physiology, animal sciences and perinatal physiology at, respectively, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin. Among her numerous academic publications are, most recently, an examination of endothelin and nitric oxide mediate reduced myogenic reactivity of small renal arteries from pregnant rats and an analysis of how women’s health research can serve to develop women leaders in the academic health sciences. Past memberships in scientific societies include the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, the New England Perinatal Research Society, the International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy (ISSHP), and the American chapter of the ISSHP, for which she served on the Board of Directors for three years and as past President of the Perinatal Research Society. Dr. McLaughlin was a key strategist in helping the College of St. Catherine launch the School of Health in September 2007. Dr. McLaughlin succeeds retiring Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs Gary Smith, PhD, who has served Carlow since 2000.
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